1st Circuit Partly Reverses Ruling In Coverage Suit Over Hurricane Maria Damage

( June 25, 2025, 9:16 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower federal court’s denial of an insurer’s postverdict motion to reduce a jury’s $873,000 contractual damages award and to set aside a jury’s $250,000 consequential damages award in a Hurricane Maria coverage dispute and affirmed the lower court’s denial of the insured’s postverdict motion for attorney fees and prejudgment interest....